I DON'T WANT TO BE HELD
Writes about sex, drugs and grief with the same flat honesty and refuses to make any of it prettier
vex on it
the runHonest use case: women who have experienced grief and the unwanted 'kindness' of others, looking for a cathartic release.
Exhibit: “Grief is not delicate and neither the fuck am I”
style
the numbers
- bpm
- 112
- key
- C major
- energy
- 0.69
- dance
- 0.94
- valence
- 0.45
- vocal at
- 6.8s
- length
- 2:18
- words
- 190
- clichés
- 0
- language
- En
most sung: “don't” ×12 · “want” ×11 · “held” ×9
lyrics
(don't hold me) Everybody keeps trying to hug me since the funeral Soft hands, sad eyes, that fucking voice people use And I don't want to be held, I want to be pinned down I want somebody to make me stop thinking for eleven minutes And I know exactly how that sounds And every woman I know has understood it immediately And every man I've explained it to has looked frightened I don't want to be held, don't want to be held Don't be gentle with me, I've had gentle all week I don't want to be held, don't want to be held Grief is not delicate and neither the fuck am I He was kind about it after and I couldn't look at him Kind is what everybody's been. Kind is the whole problem. I don't want to be held, don't want to be held Don't be gentle with me, I've had gentle all week I don't want to be held, don't want to be held Grief is not delicate and neither the fuck am I She'd have laughed at this song. That's the only reason I wrote it.